The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-10

WEDNESDAY evening the excursionists on
Providence Island noticed a sail-boat put in
at the north end of the island Soon IL was
rumored that the boat was a floating rum
shop. The news quickly reached Mr.. Brain
erd and to make sure he sent one of the
employees to the boat to see If it was cor
rect. The man returned with bottle of
whiskey purchased on the boat. Mr.. Brain
erd then went down and asked for some
whiskey. The man promptly supplied him
with it and was as promptly arrested by
Mr.. Brainerd. The fellow resisted, but
Captain Sawyer arrived just in time to take
part in the fracas. The rum-seller pulled a
club and made desperate struggle, but he
was at last downed, but not until he had
used his club quite freely. After he was
subdued a search was made and eleven
bottles of brandy seized and confiscated.
The fellow, who claimed to hail from
Canada, was released on his promise to keep
clear of the island in the future.-PldttS-
burgh Telegram.
In General.
KALAKUA has signed the new Hawaiian
constitution.
The corn crop in the West continues to
suffer from drouth.
SEVERE earthquake shocks have been felt
throughout Cyprus
SEVEN workmen were killed by a falling
wall at Minneapolis.
A SLIGHT earthquake was felt in Tennes-
see and Indiana last week.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, with Others invited
the President to Columbus.
Mrs. BEEcHER is to furnish series of
articles for the newspapers.
AMERICANS bought S1,000000 worth of
pictures in Paris last month.
LIGHT frosts occurred Monday night near
Lake Winnepesaukee, n. II.
A PITTsBURG Judge has decided that soda
water cannot be sold on Sunday.
STANLEY and his companions were at
Aruwhimi Falls June 10, all we'll.
AN incendiary fire at Evansville, Ind, de-
stroyed S350,0OO worth of property.
A FIRE in Pratt street, Baltimore, de-
stroyed S450,000 worth of property.
CONGRESSMAN E. w. ROBERTSON died of
bronchitis last week at Baton Rouge, La.
ThIRTY-FIvE business houses were burned
at Tampa, Fla, Thursday. Loss $4,000.
THE Midland railway of England is the
sufferer by strike of its engineers and fire.
men.
TWENTY-FIVE buildings were burned at
Bowling Green o. Loss $4,000; insurance
S25, 900.
In an election day fight in Manchester,
KY, six men were killed and number
wounded.
The population of China is estimated at
3S2, 900, 000 decrease of 80 0O0, 900 in twenty
five years.
H. S. CANTwELL of Malone, arrested on
the charge of forging checks, was honorably
discharged.
THREE lives were lost and many persons
injured at the launching of a steamer at
Milwaukee.
THE Colorado beetle has invaded Ger
m n of ha of
the government.
A STEAM barge launched at Wilmington,
Del, is pronounced the largest vessel ever
built in America.
BEER kettle in Robe brewery at Green
Bay, Wis. exploded, injuring seven men,
six of whom died.
THERE was a white frost Sunday morning
at Wellsville, n. Y, and the mercury regis
tered forty degrees.
MCGARIGLE, the Chicago boodler, is domi-
ciled in the st. John residence at st.
GATHERINGS, Ontario,
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake have been
felt at Laghouat, Algeria, and a number of
houses are destroyed.
CANADIAN newspapers say that the fishery
cruisers are farce and that Americans get
all the fish they want.
The German crown prince has undergone
.
He will now try Scotch air.
ACCORDING to the estimate of leading
wool merchants the Utah clip this year will
amount to 100000 pounds.
The loss of the bull wheat clique in San
Francisco by collapse of deal is figured at
from S500O,000 to S6,000,000,
THE popular editor of the Whitehall
Tines w. A. Wilkins, died very suddenly
last week of cholera morbus.
IT is unofficially announced that the SUI.
preme bench of Illinois has decided that the
convicted anarchists must be hanged.
AT Marion, Mass, Mrs. Cleveland aban-
doned a proposed sea-bath because the
whole village turned out in anticipation.
THE Emperors William and Francis 10
seph had another interview Sunday at Gas.
tein. They then babe each other farewell.
LAST week the four young sons of the
King of Siam had pleasant interview will
the President in compliance with his request
AN Illinois school-teacher had to pay 500
damages for having kept boy sitting on
chunk of ice for two hours as punishment
| A FAMILY of nine persons was murdered
near Macon, Ga, on Friday night. A sol
of the murdered man is charged with tn,
crime.
| A HUNDRED Mormons are at Ottawa try
ing to secure a grant from the Dominion fo
large tract up in British Northwest ter
ritory
CASES of cholera are reported at Palermo
Messina and Resina, Italy. There wer,
five new cases and two deaths in Malt
Sunday.
GEORGE ESSEX MoNTIFEx DRUMMoND
grandson of the Earl of Perth and Melfor
and heir to the title, died in penury at New
York last week.
THE town of Sassow, in Galicia, has beer
destroyed by fire. Fifteen corpses hav
been recovered from the ruins. Invent.
children are missing.
THE earthquake in the West is reporte
TO have caused the sinking of three hundre,
acres of land at Golden Pond, KY, whicl
is fast becoming lake.
THE death of Hon. Alpheus Hardy, whic
spicuous man from the business and re
ligious circles of that city
A FIRE at Syracuse, n. Y, damaged tn
extensive saddery hardware manufactor
of the Frazer & Jones Company 500, O0C
which is covered by insurance.
The bill to prevent the mixing of blac
and white pupils in schools passed I'll
Georgia house. The only votes in oppC
} sition We're by two negro members.
: A HURRICANE Thursday night PRACTICAL
destroyed the village of Millbrook, Mo
which contained about five hundred inhal
itants. Only one building escaped.
; DURING a picnic of the Brotherhood
! Locomotive Engineers at Lake Nonow
| Iowa, small steamer sprung leak an
sank, and four persons were drowned.
, IT is the best belief in London that I'll